Cabrillo College Library

Reading Center

What's on this page

 

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  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage -<http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Select Reading
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on READ 255 for H. Holt -- PART TWO
  5. Make it a Favorite -- Towards the top of the screen, click on favorites , then on Add to Favorites. Whenever you want to come back to it in this class session, you can find it easily by clicking on favorites
Review of Part One

We did a variety of things when you were here before, but the things you learned to use that you will use in other classes are:

  • Biography Resource Center
  • Literature Resource Center
  • CREDO Reference
  • Academic Search Premier

You can look over the worksheet you filled out in the previous class, and then please click to fill out a little review.

In Part One, you were asked to look at some political Web sites, then go to a Bulletin board for this class. Once there, you need to click on Post a new message. Type in your name and write a couple of sentences about what you learned from the political Web sites and/or the news sites. None of you did this when you were here before. So, this is something for all of you to do now.

Part Two: Using Google Books

Google is digitizing millions of books and making them available at books.google.com. This allows you to look inside books for the use of words. Amazing! Here's a YouTube video of one of the scanners that's being used.

Here's a search for information in books about Filipinos in Watsonville:

Your turn! Go to Google Books and look inside books for information on a topic of interest to you. Note down here something you learned:

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Finding newspaper articles
  • Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  • Click on Full Text Articles [second icon down, on left]
  • Over on right, under News, click on Proquest Newspapers
  • Type in a topic and click on Search

    What did you find?

    Title of the article_____________________________________

    Title of newspaper____________________________________

    Date of newspaper_______________________________
Evaluating what you find on the Internet

In using the Internet, it's important to remember that anyone can publish. You need to think critically about what you find. What is the authority behind what is being said? Where did the person get the information? How believable is it?

Evaluation is important!

Go to Google.com and search for information on a topic that interests you. Find at least one good quality Web site. Find at least one that is bogus or is not credible.

Good quality Web site:___________________________________

Why I think it is_________________________________________

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Not very good quality Web site:_____________________________

Why I think that's the case_________________________________

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Plagiarism tutorial

This plagiarism tutorial explains the ins and outs of plagiarism, and it is fun as well!!

You Quote It -- You Note It!!

Watch the tutorial and note down something you leanrned about plagiarism that you didn't know before:

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Read about reading

Go to Links for Reading Practice and select some to read. Write down here something you learned.

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Tell us! Please share your thoughts about this session. Thanks!!

How to Get to This Page on the Internet

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on English
  4. Under Course Related Materials, under READING, click on READ 255 for H. Holt -- Part Two

Helen Holt and T. N. Smalley 11/09